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lUterars Uarirti:ø. "Is this good money 1" said a man to a suspicious-looking ■wag, who had made some small purchaslof him. It ought to he good, for I made it myself," was the answer. With that he took the man up for coining; but the man, in his defence, proved that he made the money by fiddling. MENTAL AND MORAL SClENCE,-Mental science investigates the facts regarding man as an intellectual and moral being; moral science deals with the relations arising out of these facts when ascertained the former has its object the quid est (what is)—the otlwr, quid opurtet (what is right). For the one, which regarùs the faets, there is experience, and induction of particu- 1ars, and deducing of conclusions for the other, which regards the rightfulness and. the wrongfulness, there is the moral faculty, and the revelation of Goù which appeals to it.-Dublin. Uni- versity Ethics. A MABTYH OF SCIENCE.—I found a new resideut at Monterey, David Douglas, Esq., a naturalist from Scotland, who had been indefatigable in his researches throughout the northern regions of America, and was adding to his treasure the peculiar produc- tioll3 of California. I was toM he would frequently go off attended only by his little dog, and, with rifle in hand, search the wilùest thickets in the hopes of meeting a bear; yet the sight of a bullock grazing in the open field was to him more dreadful thall all the terrors of the forest. He once told me that this was his only felir, little thinking what a fate was in reserve for him, He afterwards went from Monterey to the Sandwich Islands. One morning he was found at the bottom of a pit which had been prepared as a trap for wild bulls. It is sup- posed that from curiosity he had approached too near to get a 3ight of the furious animal that had been ensnared, and the earth giving way, precipitated him below. The merciless brute had gored him to death. His faithful little dog was found near the spot, watching a basket of his collections.-Life ill Cali- fornia. THE PROPER TmE FOR TAKING BREAKFAST depends a good deal on the illdivElual constitution and mode of life. Those who eat supper ought not to breakfast till oue or two hours at least after rising; but persons who dine late and eat nothing after- wards require breakfast sooner. Individuals of a delicate frame are often unable for either bodi1y or mental exertion in the morning, and are invariably injured by any attempt at exercise or serious thinking before breakfast; but strong healthy persons, and those in whom digestion is naturally slow, may enjoy anù even be benefited by two or three hours of activity before their morning meal, especially if accustomed to eat supper. Expe- rience is the only sure guide in such cases, but, as a general rule, breakfast about half an hour or an hour after rising will be found most beneficial; and those who rise very early will do well to follow the French custom of taking a cup of eoffee or tea, and bread, on getting up, and reserve their appetite for a more substantial breakfast three hours later. This is an inva- luable rule fur students, who often seriously impair their digest- ive functions by studying for hours in the morning, regardless of the craving of the system for nourishment and support.- Dr. Combe on Digestion and Dietetics. RED COATS AND LADIES' LuvE.-lIad the Royal army of Israel been accoutred after the colour and fashion of the British bat- talions, I am quite satisfied that another enigma would have been added by King Solomon to his special list of incomprehen- sibilities. The extraonlinary fascination which a red coat exer- cises over the minds antl optics of the fair sex, appears to me a greater phenomenon than any which has been noticed by Goethe in his Theory of the Development of Colours." The same fragment of ensanguined cloth will irritate a bull, eharm a viper, and bewitch the heart of a woman. No civilian, however good-looking or clean-limbed-and 1 rather pique myself upon my pins-has the ghost of a chance when opposed in the lists uf love to an officer, a mail-guard, a whipper-in, or a postman. You may be as clever a fellow as ever coopered up an article for the Magazine, as great a poet as Byron, in beauty as Antinous, jn wit a Selvvyn, in oratory a Canning-you may dance like Vestris, draw like Grant, rille like Alexander; and yet with all these accomplishments, it is a hundred chances to one that your black coat, although fashioned by the shears and polished by the goose of Stultz, will be extinguished by the gautly scarlet haui- liments of a raw-boned ensign, emancipated six months ago, for the first Cme in his life, from the wilderness of a Highland glen, and even now as awkward a cub as ever presumed to plunge into the perils of a polka. — Blackwood's Magazine. ORIGIN OF THE \V All BETWEEN FKANCB AND ALGIRRS,-In relating the well-known ineident that gave rise to hostilities between France and the Dey of Algiers, Count St. Marie goes back to the remote cause, which, by his account, was a lady, 1a the time of Napoleon the Bey of Tunis had a favourite female slave, for whom he ordered, of an Algerine Jew, a costly and magnificent head-dress. The Jew, unaule to get it manu- factured in the country, wrote to Paris; the head-dress was made at an expense of twelve thousand francs, and the modest Israelite charge(1 it thirty thousand to the Bey. The latter wa3 too much pleased with the bauble to demur at the price; uut not being in cash. he paid fur it in corn. There chanced just then to be a scarcity in France; the Jew sold his grain to the army contractors, and manageù so well that he became a creditor uf the French Government fur upwards of a million of francs. Napoleon fell, and the Bourbons declined to pay; but the Jew contrived to interest the Dey of Algiers in his cause, and re- monstrances were addressed to the French Government. The affair dragged on for years, and at last, in 1829, on the eve of a festival, when the diplomatic corps were permitted to pay their respects to the Dey, the latter expostulated with the French consul on the subject of the long ùelay. The answer was unsa- tisfactory, antl the consequence was the celeurated rap with a fan or fly-flap, which sent its giver into exile, and converted Algeria into a French province. On visiting the Kasbah, or citadel at Algiers, Captain Kennedy was shown the little room jn which the insult was offered to the representative of France. It is now used as a poultry-yard. "Singularly enough," says the captain, as we entered, a cock, strutting on the deserted divan, proclaimed his victory over some feebler rival hy a tri- umphant crow —an appropriate emblem of the real state of affairs." But the conllueretl cock is game; and althgugh sorely punished by his adversary's spurs, he returns again and again tù the charge.— Ibid. ARDENT SPIRITS.—Sir Astley Cooper says, "I never suffer ardent spirits in I11j- Louse, thinkillg them evil spirits and if persons could witness the white livers, the dropsies, and the shattered nervous systems which I have seen, as the COGse- quence of drinking them, they would be aware that spirits and poison are synonymous terms." Dr. Lettsom declares that •• nearly all the illness of his adult patients and most of the cases of sudden deaths, were occasioned by the practice of taking a glass of spirits and water after dinner;" and Dr. Trotter fully confirms the o¡nmon. Dr. Buchan says, "malt liquor occasions obstructions, inflammations of the lungs, which are brought 011 by the glutinous and indigestible nature of strong ale;" and he tells us that wme and spirits are still worse, as they inflame the blood, and tear tne tendei vessels of the lungs to pieces Dr. Bedùoes tells us that vinous liquors are a two-edged sword." Wine, by its hrst operahon, promotes indigestion; anù by its second, even if genuine (which is very far indeed from being always the case), is chauged to villegar on the stomach. A Dublin physician tells us that" if an end were put to the drink- ing of port, sherry, punch, See., physicians and apothecaries would be ruined, and medieal halls would be quite unnecessary." He further adds, that.. if ten young men of the age of twenty- one years, drink a glass of ardent spirits or a pint of port or sherry per day, the lives of eight of them woult.! be shortened by ten or fifteen j'ears." Dr. Hucher (United Siates) tells us, that strong beer has no power to allay intemperate habits, but that it willtiuish what aruent spirits began." He farther adds, that beer gives us the stupiùity of the idiot, and ardent spirits ;hp phrensy of the demon." Dr. J. Barker ( United States) tells tiS that General Jackson observed, that soldiers who drank nothing but cold water enùured hard duty and excessive cold much better than other soldiers who drank intoxicating liquors." Dr. Paris observes, that happy is he who considers water as the best drink,-Provincial Paper.

¡ SI R R. rEEL AND LO RD G. B E'JTIl\CK. The Standard Lag hern too long and 10') lI<efuily connected wiih the Conservative party for liS to drprcciatc i's ncncral MTvlcpsto thc cause to which wc arc as warmly (and have bee,. milch longer) attached lint uc mllst be permitted to doubt whether the tone, the tel!1pcr,aud the language at prcsclIt in use by that journal, are at all calculated to advance the ob- jects of the Conservative party. Lord George. Bcntinck is undoubtedly an able man-a, man lik :iy to be of great public utility, and to aell/CVe a distin- guished public po<ilion. Dnt his Lordship is not as yet the most perfect of political leaders, or the most eloquent of political speakers; and it is folly, nay worse than folly, to say iie is either. Intellectually, there are men infinitely more capable th.1\1 Lord George II. the "Country Party." Hc is of beller social standing than Mr. Disraeli, ànd of greater energy than Mr. Stafford O'Brien but both these gentlemen are possessed of milch higher mental powers. His Lordship is, moreover, a rash politician. 1 he novelty (If his position, aad his success ,1wrein, induce hIm to speak on all subjects, however foreign to his previous habits or studies; and thn. lIP. hecomes de- ¡",ndent for his information on others, who probably lakc exaggerated views of the matter to oe discussed, aud who, ill their eagerness, cram him with statements not to hc always relied on. Such was the case in respect or the Small J)cb;s Bill. Now, rashness and lOaCClHacv arc very sClious defects in a political leader; for they have a tendency 10 damage, irreparably, his party by depriving it of public confidence. However, the g:reallllCrlt of Lord George Hcntiiick is that, notwithstanding tllese defects, he has infused courage into his party; and renJcred its accession to pown, wh,nit certainly W,I" nut before, a possihlc political occurrence. Still, Lord George is not. to he deitied with thc slavish idolatry of the Stavdiird lie is a useful, and an energetic politician, hut he is nol as yet (whatever he may become) the greatest mau of the age he is a risiúg man, but he is not a person to bc wor- shipped and lauded with all the inlolerance of OIU contempo- rary's passion. Nor is Robert Peel to be denounced, abused, anu damnified after the faslllun of the Standard. Sir I{obert, though he has committed two grievons faults, has, nevertheless, performed very great services to the Coun- try; and though we have been deceived by him, much of the deceit has undolJutedly been practised by ourselves. The events and legislation of the present year are the legitimate conchhions of those mcasurcs,and of that policy of 18-ld which had no londcr applause frolll any quartcr than frolD the Standard. The gradual change in hig opinions was obvious to everyone bitt that journal, which was then fully as vehe- ment in ils renwfks on all who were not blinded by Peelism as it now is 011 the ex-l'remier himself. Nay, thc Standard upheld Sir Hobert Peel as a protectionist loug afler he had in priuclple and reasoning ceased to be one. SIr Robert, it is true, never was the angel it once pleased onr contemporary, in its raptures, to portray hiui; but he is not quite the demon it now suits it, in its rage, to descrihe him. A nd, we must frankly ttli the Standaid, that the intemperate languagc it applies to, and tbe ungeaerous insinuaLJoos it vents forth agamst Sir Robert Peel, are disapproved of hy a very large section of the Conservative party, and are considered to be most injurious to the interests of that party, as they certainly are discreditable to its press, which, representing the opinions aud the feelings of gentlemen, ought to be conducted in the temper aud with tbe spirit of gentlem.:n.-Jo!m Bull. o THE SAVINGS' BANK. So you are a poor man willing to lay by a shilling a week, but wallt to know first a little about a savings'bank ? Well, then, it shall be told you. A savings' bank is an institution for receiving small savings; established by wealthy people who would like to see you better off in your circumstances, and more rpspectable in your eonùi- tion. They neither receive advantage nor profit frum it. On the contrary, they devotc much of their time amI attention to its management; they would rather you should save your money by depositing it in the savings' bank, than by spenùing it in a wasteful way, at the ale-house or at home. They would wish you to save what part of your hard earnings you can spare against a time when it will stand a friend to you—when you may want it more than you do now-when every shilling may be worth to you as much as two shillings are at the present moment. This they would have you 10 for your benefit now then by-and-by you will be able to help yourself in a time of scarce employment-in a time of sickness-in a time or old age-when it will comfort and relieve you; instead of having starvation at home, poverty at your sick bed, and your old days endell in a workhouse. A savings' bank is a place of profit, as we1l as a place of deposit. This is a great advantage to you; because if there were no such institution as a savings' bank, you eould receive no such profit for your money, whereas a savings' bank gives you interest for small sums which you could receive nowhere else. A savings' bank is a place of security-better, in fact, than any other security you could get elsewhere. Remember this, that as soon as you place money in a savings' bank, you become, by the possession of your deposit-book, the creditor of the nation-that is, the government who represents the nation are your debtors. In short, your money is just as safe there as if you placed it in the Bank of England, because your money eventually forms a part and parcel of the money in the Bank of England, and you have as much right to recall it as any noble- man who may have fifty thousand pounds there, with this difference only, that you applyfor it through theoagency of the gen- tlemenat the savings' bank, who are your trustees in the matter. "Last]y, at a savings' bank you receive back your moner when you wish it, without being asked what you want it for. If at any time you should desire ten shillings or a pound, you have merely to take your deposit-book and apply for it, and it is paid you immediately. Remember, too, that in a savings' bank you are subject to no income-tax or any other tax. You are not obliged to take all your money when you want a part: you may take what you please. If you do not receive your money at the end of every year, you have added to your account interest in proportion to the amount you have in the bank. If it please God that you may not want to receive any part of it, and still keep on adding to it, you will in a few years have in the bank something to comfort you in sickness-provide for you in old age, or befriend you in the time of need. If nothing of thi8 sort should happen, you will have the comfort of leaving to your family a few pounds at a time when it will be most needed. Think on these things-consider well for whose benefit savings' banks were established. If for yours, filil not then to embr,1ee the advantage held out, and begin immcdiately by depositillg your first shilling.From the Pictorial Supplement to the Liverpool Mail. PROSPECTS OF THE IRON TRADE. There never was, perhaps, a period in the history Df the iron trade in which its prospects were so promising as at the prescnt moment. We have high prices, occasioned not by speculation, but by legitimate requirements-short stocks, which are daily becoming shorter, as the supply cannot keep pace with the exigencies of the public a prospective demand now closely pressing on the market, great beyond all precedent; and this, without the possibility of increasing the make of iron to aay considerable (if any) extent. That the present very remune- rative prices of iron are "lot the result of speculation, but of legitimate business, is wen known to everyone who has paid the slightest attention to the iron market for the last few years, Between 1833 and 18t-0, the prices ranged very high-pig.,iron being £ 6, < £ 7, and even £8 per ton. This was in part occa- sioned by the impetus given to the trade by the increased demand, but far more by the spirit of speculation, then abroad; and the consequence waS, that as soon as speculation subsided, a reaction took place, and a period of depression came, unex- ampled in its severity. Since then, the uses to which iron is applied have much increased large supplies of rails have been wanted and the trade recovering itself, not suddenly, but by a steady anù sure progress, has attained the position in which it now stands. With the single exception of the early part of last year, when, for a short time, there was a little gambling in iron speculation, has not for many years prevailed in the iron market; & it is to be hoped it will remam absent for the future, as nothing tends more to place the ironmaster in an embarrassing position than high prices artificially produced, as they interfere with the costs of production, and lead universally to his ultimate loss. During the period of depression-from 1840 to 1843-the ironmasters, unable to sell, and unwilling to blowout their furnaces, accumulated large stocks of iron, which have stood them in good stead since the period of prosperity has set in: as for some time past the make has been heyond question unequal tCJ the demand, and the deficiency has been supplied from their accumulated stores, which, have been thus gradually sold off, and are now, we may say, dissipated; for we believe there never was a time in which the iron in store in this country was so short as at present, and it is daily getting shorter; as at Glasgow the stocks are reducing at the rate of fully 1000 tons per week, with no chance of an increased make, owing to the scarcity of minerals in the Glasgow district-whilst in Staffordshire, mine- rals are becoming so scarce, that many of the masters find great difficuny in keeping their furnaces at work. ]f, then, there be this difficulty in meeting the present demand, how will it be possible to meet that which will press Upon the market from this time forward until the railway system (which is now in its infancy) be fully developed ? In this country, acts were obtained in 1814 and 1845 for 3543 miles; & this session—& this does not include the acts passed just before the adjournment of Parliament—for39.il miles; making together719! miles of railroad authorised for this country alone- whilst (according to the Report of Mr. Morrison's Select Com- mittee on Railroads) in France, at the present time, about 6:20 miles of railroad are in operation; and the whole number of miles to which the railroads will extend in six years is estimated at about 3700 miles-so that there are 3100 to be constructed in the next sLx year3 and in Prussia 700 miles are in the course of construction; upwards of 800 miles more finally adopted, and upwards of 900 miles remain merelya9 projects besides which, in every part of Europe, railways are either constructing or projec- ted, and this will constantly be the ease so long as the system re- mains incomplete, as the advantages of this means of communi- cation are so great that the progress of railways eannut be arrested-it is a qnestion of time merely. In India, too, the railway system is likely to find considerable favour, as there is little doubt that the early requirements of that country will not be less than 2000 miles. Without, however, estimating any but lines already authorised, we have in England, France, aud Prus- sia, above 12,000 miles of railway, which will, beyond question, be constructed within the next six years. Let us consiùer the effect the demand for the iron required for these undertakings is likely to produce on the English mar- ket., It is certain that this country cannot depend upon any foreign market for iron: On the contrary, we are large exporters :-having exported in 1845 above 350,000 tons of iron and steel, 111 a manufactured and unmanufactured state. Our exports are to all countries, incluùing France, Russia, Prussia, Germany, and America-and they are on the increase; as, comparing the export of irun from London and the Clyde during the first six months of 18-15, with the export of iron from the same places during the first six months of the present year, they have in- creased from IG7,506 tons to 2(j5,655 tons-m increase of nearly 75 per cent. Being assured, then, that we cannot look to forei 'n couutries for a supply but that, on the contrary, they will have to look to us for a very much larger supply than auy they have yet received, particularly since the modification in the American tariff, it follows that we shall have to find iron for our own rail- ways at all events-viz.: for 7494 miles, which will require at 50U tons a mile (a moderate estimate), 3,747,000 tons of bar- iron, equal (the loss on converting pig into bar being about 20 per cent.) to 4,496,400 tons of pig-iron in round numbers 1^ millions tons of pig-iron. Now, the make of the kingdom is (as near as it can possibly be estimated) 1.500,000 tons of pig- iron per annum; of this at least 400,000 tons is got rid of in the exports—leaving 1,100,000 to supply this country-conse- quently, should the above railroads be carried out in the next six years, as (unless prevented by want of iron) they undoubt- edly will \1', the English railroads will require 750,000 tons of pig-iron per annum for six years to come, and tù supply them this country must increaSe its make at least 70 per cent. That this is au impossibility, is beyond all question tbc irollmasters have increased their make alreadv almost, if not quite, to the limit. Iron ore is getting excessively scarce and dear in Staf- fordshire, and very few new furnaces are building. Indeed, so entireiy are the iron properties occupied and pressed to their full work, that not even aa iron company has started, with one smgle exception-that of the Banwen Iron Company; and tlus shows the tension of the system the more fully, as there is no doubt that any iron property fit to be worked at all, must, for the next 10 or 20 years, return such large profits, that 20 per cent. w1ll be considered but a small matter by the ironmaster- in short, those who are fortunate enough to hold iron properties, possess, as it were, a mine of gold; they have virtually a mono- poly which cannot be interfered with, as iron must be had, how- eyer costly the price.-fliini1l9 Journal,

y. RAILWAY ACTS. J. verv interesting report, drawn np by Mr. ;\Iorrisol1 for the cntiMueralion of the select committee on railways, has appeared 111 the Times. Mr. Morrison's threat argu- mentis that Government supervision of these, our nation,'t! roads, is necessary for the protection of the public a^aiiit-t exorbitant charges and ill-management. A man must now travel by railway, and submit to all the rules laid down by the directors. On an ordinary road he nsuvlit travel at any hour, and by any conveyance that he pleasot; but on railroads there is no option, whatever may be the rate of charges, or whatever inconvenience he may have to undergo. From the testimony of nearly all the wit- nesses examined before the committee it is confidently statell that 110 relief from railway monopoly can be ex- pected from competing lines, as the new ones are invaria- bly bought up by those which arc established. In Franco, in Germany, and in Belgium, the fares were much lower than in this country, anll the report disproves the asser- tion that continental lines are worked cheaper than here. The low price of coal and coke in England enables her to produce locomotive power at far less cost than other count ril's can, and yet our scale of charges was much higher than any, particularly Belgium, where all the lines were began and finished by Government. The public were thus benefitted, a comprehensive system of railway communication established throughout the country, and great waste of capital prevented. In this country the most injudicious schemes were proposed, and a fruitless expelJlliture of capital was the consequence. The principal points in the report are thus recapitulated 1. No future lines. either for main trunks or brunches, shonl,tbe ceden except for terms of years. 2. Full and aCClIrate accounts of the proceedings of railwav companies, embracing their whole receipts and expenditure, shali 1,1.' laid from time to time before Parliament. 3. As all idea of the construction of new lilies where they are not called for by the wants of districts, in order to give the public thc benefit of competition, must be abanuoned, io rc- tniu for the monopoly, companies ought to submit to an effi- cient system of control, wilh a view 10 the security of the public against extravagant fares and charges, and the adoption of uniformity on the different lines in the scales and the mode of charging. 4. An end should at once be put to the system of issuing more new shares than are required to cover,necessary outlays, in order to divide premiums among proprietors and thereby swell the amount of nominid stock beyond the actual outlay. 5. In order to provide efficiently for the superintendence of railways, and in order that the intentions of Parliament may not he defeated uy the directors of companies aud in ordcr also that a judicious railway system may be insured, and a cheaper and more effective mode of conducting preliminary inquiries than that which now takes place before Parliamentary committees may be adopted, a board or department of the executive should he appointed, with power to employ in- spectors, surveyors and other officers, to aid them in conducting their inquiries. Such a board to whicå railway affairs might be entrusted, wonld, from the knowledge it could not fail to acquire, be enabled to judge what lines are necessary for the supply of the wants of the country, bow far a given project may be conducive to that end, and to supply Parliament with such information as may be of use in enabling it to legislate in the way most bencficial to the public. I 6. Railway companies should be obliged to carry the Post- office mails by passeuger-traius free of all charges and at times when there are 110 passenger-trains, for the additional I expense thereby occasioned. The alterations which may be advisable in the case of soldiers, sailors, and other bodies of men in the public service, have not beeD considered by your committee.

<&eitetral iSUgceilang. I PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.— During the session just I terminated, the royal assent was given to G70 bills. THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.—This fund now amounts, in the aggregate, to about f 71,000. The I increase since our last has taken place chietlv in Man- chester and the neighbourhood.—Manchester Courier. IMPORTANT !—Mr. and Mrs. Cobden left Paris last week for the Pyrenees. HEAT OF AUGUST, 1846.—The temperature of the month just ended was five degrees higher than that of August, 1845. Two children were poisoned last week in Bandon, Cork, by eating the mushroom called Fairy Cap." The sum expended in the purchase of pictures for the National Gallery, up to the present time, is £ 114,804. 16s. The only living brother of Napoleon is now the Prince de Montfort, ex-King of Westphalia, who is in his sixty- secondyear. Louis Philippe has raised the Mayor of Bordeaux—the Cobden of France—to the Peerage. The project of turning Covent-garden Theatre into an Italian Opera-house is intended to be carried out. Arrangements, says the Athenceum, have been made for a campaign of three years, under the musical direction of Sig. Costa. Dr. Duke, of Hastings, with his lady and all the members of his family, has, during the last few days, conformed to the Roman Catholic Church.—Morning Post. An importation of ice has just taken place from Green- land, by a ship named the Edgcumbe, having on board 100 tons weight of this singular article of merchandise. The size of the Atlantic is about 800 miles in length, and from 5,000 to 8,000 in breadth. The Pacific is 11,000 in length, and 8,000 in breadth. The Indian is in length and breadth about 4,000. The Turkish Government has placed British merchants trading to Turkey on the same footing as the Russians, which they were not before. Aptisoner, under sentence of death, has made his escape out of Morpeth gaol by means of a key cut out of leather. Thomas Grey, the author of the railway system, is living in comparative poverty. A few days ago, the nest of a Guinea hen, containing 113 eg'^s, was found in an outhouse in Clitheroe. I It.is stated that gowns and bands are coming into general use in the Scottish Methodist pulpits. It is stated that a large number of railway labourers have been engaged to proceed to Spain. LEAGUE VOTERS.—All the county votes in the neigh- bourhood of the metropolis, obtained by the purchase of freehold property through the agency of the late Anti- Corn-Law League, are%>bjected to. Halifax papers to the 9th ult. contain accounts of the almost total failure of the wheat crop in Miramichi. The ravages of the weevil have been so extensive, that farmers are mowing the wheat for fodder. The iron tube or tunnel, by means of which the Chester and Holyhead Railway is to be carried across the Menai Straits, will require 8,000 tons of iron plates to form it.—1Manchester Guardian. RACE HORSES FOR RUSSIA.—On Thursday, the Vic- tory steam-ship, for Saint Petersburgh, left the Saint Katherine's Wharf with the celebrated horse Coronation, purchased for the Emperor of Russia. Sicily is stated to be in a very distressed state, owing to the extreme heats which have prevailed, and which have destroyed the crops. The mills cannot work for want of water. POPULATION.—The British soil contains, on one square mile, 120 times as many persons as Russia; nearly one- third more than France; and about double the propor- tion of Austria and Prussia. How TO COOK A BEEFSTEAK.—" Not one cook in ten," says old Square-toes, knows how to prepare a beefsteak; they neglect the grand rule, which is, to separate the fat from the lean and to put it on the grid- iron first, so as to broil it half as little again as the lean. That makes it pulpy, like marrow, and made all right. But how few do this 1" A young lady commences her advertisement in the Times" with "A young lady wishes an engagement!" We should like to know the disengaged young lady who does not wish an engagement. Letters from Chamouni add the names of Mr. Wolley, of Boston, Nottinghamshire, and Mr. James Hurt, of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, to those of the travellers who have succeeded in reaching the crest of Mount Blanc. The New York Herald," of Aug. 8, has the follow- ing extraordinary announcement:—"A German in Wisconsin, aged 84, was lately presented by his wife, aged 70, with three children at one birth. Verily, Wisconsin is a rich country." A Trieste letter of the 15th ult., says :—" The accounts from Jerusalem represent all Palestine to be a prey to the horrors of famine, caused by the rivers and streams being dried up. At Safet many persons had already perished from want of food." Religious toleration appears to be extending abroad as well as at home. The Constitutionnel" announces that the Turkish Government has granted the Trappists an extent of ground, near Tophana, a small village in the neighbourhood of Constantinople, to establish a model-farm. Two Monks of La Trappe had already repaired to the spot to make the necessary arrangements for the foundation of that new establishment. EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE AT BLACKBURN.—The resolutions of the master manufacturers to work four days a week have been carried into full effect. Every mill in the town, with two or three exceptions, stopped working on Friday night, and did not commence work- ing again till Tuesday morning. The streets were con- sequently crowded with persons out of work, and it is generally feared that it will be followed by a reduction of wages. WHALES. —Seventy-three Whales were captured at Housbay, in Stronsay, on the 18th ult., by the crews of three or four boats, after a short chase. A day or two after 212 were driven ashore in Sanday. They have since been sold by public roup, and realised something handsome to the captors. Companies from Kirkwall have been the principal purchasers.—Scotch paper. RAILWAYS v. STAGE COACIIES.—The short interval that has elapsed since the Bradford and Leeds Railway was opened, has served to sweep away almost all the stage coaches from that road, though there used to be not an hour in the day when they were not running from the two towns.—Leeds Mercury. A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAGH.—Lord J. Manners visited at the workhouse John Harden, a pauper of diseased mind, who is now for thirty-three days without having taken a particle of solid food. The unfortunate man is little altered in person, except about the region ot the stomach, which is sunk in, and quite reduced. He is compelled, with great difficulty, to take a noggin or two of broth in the 24 hours.—Limerick Chronicle. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Coughs, colds, asthmas, and shortness of breath radically cured.—For some time past it has been known that hundreds of the most distressing cases of asthmas, of many years' stauding, have been completely cured by Holloway's pills. There is also no doubt but that they are a sovereign remedy when taken for any wheezing or shortness of breath, even of twenty years standing; and, as to coughs and colds, however bad they be, it need only be the work of a few days to get entirely rid of them by the means of this astonishing medicine, A document was printed on Saturday, giving nn ac- count of the public income an I expenditure of the United Kingdom for three years, ended the 5th of January, ISM, 1S-1.1, and lS-ltj. '1 lie income was in the three years respectively £ '38,500,217, and £ ->7,60 2,26S, whilst the expenditure was £ .35,501,740, £ 55,103,647, and £ 5o,87o,0(i-». In a lengthened appendix the charges of collcctioll ami other expenses are detailed. AUSENCE OF MIND.—A butcher of Garstang, 011 re- turning last Tuesday from Hornby fair, seems to have got so be-mused on his journey as to mistake his poney for a fine Scots' heifer, and he accordingly led it to the slaughter-house, knocked it down in a business-like manner, stuck it. in due form, and began skinning it; nor would he then have discovered his mistake had not some neighbours, in passing, perceived what he was about, and caused him, by force as well as by entreaty, to desist from his wild adventure,—Preston Chronicle. The accounts received from Nottingham of the hosiery trade, are very bad, and nothing is heard among the poorer class but want of work, and consequent distress. Other trades are in all equally depressed condition. I The "Nottingham Journal" rcmarl, That many of the hosiers and also the lace manufacturers, from some I strange cause, deny that trade is dull, HIli I wish the nation to believe that their manufactures are in a flourish- ing state, although many of the hands arc sutfcrlWi I severely from want, and to use the workmen's own phrase, are dying by inches." HAVING" AX [.;YK TO BUSINESS.— During a trial in the i assize court, at Bristol, last week, a gentleman was taken ill, and was removed i'lOin the court by a member of the legal profession. As the latter w:.s assisting his sick friend up Broad-street, a person, making a low bow, poppedacard into his hand and solicited the honour of his patronage. The card contained the name and address of an undertaker, with the significant addendum, Funerals completely served!"—Bristol Mercury. DEATH FROM BOXING.—On Sunday, August 30, two soldiers belonging to the 95th Regiment, stationed in Tralee, the one a corporal, the other a private, named Hennessy, commenced, at first in play, a boxing-match. As generally happens in such cases, the play came to earnest, when the corporal hit Hennessy with his clenched hand, and killed him on the spot. An inquest is to be held on the body of the deceased. EXTENT OF THE UNITED STATES.—The United States have a frontier line of 10,000 miles. We have a line of sea coast of 4000 miles, and a lake coast of 1200 miles. One of our rivers is twice the size of the Danube, the largest river in Europe. The Ohio is GOO miles longer than the Rhine, and the Hudson has a navigation 120 miles longer than the Thames. The single State of Vir- ginia is a third larger than England. Ohio contains 5,120,000 acres more than Scotland. From Maine to Ohio is further than from London to Constantinople, and so we might go on and fill pages, enumerating distances, rivers, lakes, capes, and bays, with comparative estimates of size, power, and population.—New York SUrl. YACHTING FRACAS.—We hear that a curious and comical fracas has recently occurred on board one of the Royal Yacht Club vessels. The yacht was some distance from land, when a dilference of opinion took place between the noble owner and the captain (a half-pay naval officer). At length the noble owner turned up all hands, and ordered the crew not to consider Mr. as their captain, and no longer to obey his commands. On this the valiant half-pay went below, and, arming himself with a brace of pistols, told the crew he was legally their registered commander, and that unless they obeyed his orders he would treat them as mutineers. It is also re- ported that he went so far as to threaten to put the noble owner in irons. The captain ultimately brought the vessel into port, but, of course, he now no longer com- mands her.—Standard. A CHILD POISONED WITII WHISKY.—A circumstance has occurred at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, which ought to operate as a warning-. On Monday week, a Mrs. Shaw, whose son, about three years of age, had been restless during the previous night, administered a quantity of whisky to him, for the purpose of making him quiet. The dose seemed to produce the effect desired, as the child fell into a profound sleep. Not seeming to awake when the day was far advanced, some of the neighbours, who felt alarmed, suggested the propriety of calling a doctor, to which, however, the mother objected, remarking that he would soon waken. After five in the afternoon, ten hours after the dose had been administered, and still no manifestation of the child's awaking, a medical man was sent for, who, upon first sight, declared that the child had been poisoned, and asked what he had taken upon which she confessed that she had given him about half a glass of whisky in the morning to quiet him. Vomitting was immediately resorted to, but the child died in the course of an hour. POLITICAL GRATITUDE.—The following members of the Government have subscribed the sums affixed to their names to the Cobden Testimonial:—Lord J. Russell, Prime Minister, £100; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, £ 100; Viscount Morpeth, First Com- missioner of Woods and Forests, £ 30; Earl Fortescue, Lord Steward, £ 50; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, £ 100; Mr. T. B. Macaulay, Paymaster of the Forces, £ 25 Mr. W. Gibson Craig, a Lord of the Treasury, JE25. MORE THAN A MATCH FOR CArT. BARCLAY.—A corres- pondent of the New York Herald relates the following extraordinary pedestrian feat of a man in the 77th year of his age :—Did you ever hear of old Eaton Why he is a perfect miracle—there he goes, now while I write, walk- ing himself to everlasting fame. He completed his 540th mile on Wednesday, at four o'clock, and came in quite fresh, amid the cheers of a large number of spectators. You will remember he is backed to walk one thousand miles in as many consecutive hours—and this he seems determined to accomplish 011 a plank walk. It is really wonderful to witness the extraordinary powers of this human frame, as exhibited in the ancient and bent form of the great pedestrian, who is actually in his 77th year. THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. — The several sessions of the present Parliament have had the following tlu. rations Opened. Prorogued. Days duration. First session, 1841 Aug, 19 Oct. 7 50 Second 18t' I eb. 3 Aug. 12 191 Third 1843 Feb. 2 Aug. 24 204 Fourth 1844 Feb. 1 Sept. 5 218 Fifth" 1815 Feb. 4 Aug. 9 18(5 Sixth" 184G Jan. 22 Aug. 28 219 The session of 1844, however, closed on the 9tii of Aug., and adjourned—the Lords to the 2nd of September, for the purpose of receiving the opinions of the judges on the writ of error, in the case of "the Queen versus O'Connell and others;" and the Commons to the 5th of September, the day of its prorogation. Having thus extended over six sessions, the question is a pertinent, as well as an important, one-lvill the present Parliament be allowed to meet again 1 EXTRAORDINARY FACULTIES POSER FOR TIIE MESMERISTS.—The Manchester Conner relates the fol- lowing remarkable (very remarkable) case of—divination, we suppose we must call it. A gentleman named Rabbi Professor Danr.emarck, of Hungary, has been performing to a select few, some feats which altogether baffle any previous exhibition of clairvoyance. He was shown a private letter, which it was impossible he could have seen before, and on merely glancing at the first page, stated that it contained 34 lines. The lines were carefully counted by the gentlemen present, and it was found that the number mentioned by the Prolessor was precisely the number which the page contained. A Hebrew and English Lexicon, belonging to Mr. Franklin, and which Professor Dannemarcti ^could not have seen before, was then handed to him. The book was opened at pages 230 and 231 by one of the party, in such a way that the Pro- fessor could not see what were their contents. Three different points were chosen by the gentlemen present, one at the top of 230, one at the bottom of the same page, and one on the fifth line of page 231, and the Professor undertook to say what were the words which would be found at these several points. In this he again completely succeeded. A Hebrew and Latin Concord- ance to the Bible was next intioduced. One of the party fixed upon a page, with the number of which the Pro- fessor was made acquainted, although he could not see the page itself; he then put his finger upon the outside of the book, the Professor engaging to name the word immediately opposita to it in the page at which the volume was opened. In this he was entirely successful. A piece of paper was put into a book, at the place at which it was opened by one of the party, and which was unknown to the Professor, and the latter mentioned some of the words that were found under the paper. A pen- knife was introduced in a similar manner, and with the same results. A Dutch edition of the Family Prayer- book, which we were informed he never could have seen before, was next brought forward. The volume was half-opened, one of the party thrust his hand into the opening, the contents of which could not be seen by the Professor, and yet he named words on both pages oppo- site to the hand. The Professor says he cannot account for the possession of those faculties in any other way than that they are an extraordinary gift of nature.- [Humbug!] SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER.—The attention of the scientific world has been drawn to the discovery, by Pro- fessor Schonbein, of an explosive compound which appears to possess many advantages over gunpowder. A cotton is prepared by a process not yet divulged-but which is in all probability one that depends on the for- mation of a nitrogen compound, This cotton possesses many remarkable properties. On the application of a spark, the sulid mass is at once converted into a gaseous state and a scientific gentleman, who has witnessed some experiments in the laboratory of Prolessor Schon- bein, states that, whereas an equal weignt ot gunpowder, when exploded, filled the apartment with smoke, the cotton exploded without producing any—leaving only a few atoms of carbonaceous matter beniud. Common balls and shells have been projected by this prepared cotton, and it is stated to have the projectile force of gun- powder. An interesting experiment was recently tried on the walls of an old castle. Ithadbeencalculated that from three to four pounds of gunpowder would be required to destroy it—and a hole, capable of holding that quantity, was prepared. Professor Sctionbein being desirous of testing the explosive force ot his new pre- paration, placed four ounces of it in the hole; which, when fired, blew the massy walls to pieces. Another valuable property of this cotton is, that it is not injured by wet; as it appears that, after being diied, it has lost nothing of its power. It of course remains to be seen if it is, in all respects, equal to gunpowder; but, under many circumstances, it must prove of great value. It is expected that Professor Schonbein will attend the meeting of the British Association, at Southampton, that quantity, was prepared. Professor Sctionbein being desirous of testing the explosive force ot his new pre- paration, placed four ounces of it in the hole; which, when fired, blew the massy walls to pieces. Another valuable property of this cotton is, that it is not injured by wet; as it appears that, alter being diied, it has lost nothing of its power. It of course remains to be seen if it is, in all respects, equal to gunpowder; but, under many circumstances, it must prove of great value. It is expected that Professor Schonbein will attend the meeting of the British Association, at Southampton, when, no doubt, some further account of this extraordi- nary discovery will be made public. nary discovery will be made public. I)r. Pusey, whoso health is very indifferent, has been with his family sojourning for some weeks at Tcnhy. Owing to his extreme weakness, he does not appear in Chinch, or at till in public. Mr. Newman, hearing of his indisposition, came to see hirn about a fortnight ago, and Dr. Pusey was so affected by the visit (it being the first time the gentlemen had met since Mr. Newman's secession) that a relapse has been the consequence. lie is now somewhat better. TUI;NIP DISEASE.—We regret, exceedingly, to learn from many farmers, who have attended Oxford market, that a somewhat similar disease to that of the potatoe has manifested itself, in many parts of the country, amongst theturttips. The turnips arc struck in a similar manner 10 the potatoes; the leaves first become affected, and the disease fast spreads into the heart of the turnip, which in a very short time becomes rotten, and emits a very offen- sive smell. Fears are entertained that the turnip crops will sutler extensively from it. John Hillurd, the man charged with causing the deaths of T. Pail.er, late proprietur of the Veteran beer-shop, in the Whitechapel-road, and S. Jones, a child, aged three years, by selling berries of the alropa belladonna, or deadly night-shade, which were made into a pie and partaken of by the deceased, has been committed to Newgate to take his trial far Wilful Murder. SUPI'OSED MURDER AT CHESTERFIELD.—A most awful circumstance has been this week brought to light, which has excited in Chesterfield and its neighbourhood feelings of the greatest horror and alarm. The appalling disco- very of a mangled human body amongst some night-soil in a vault in the heart of the town, has caused this universal excitement. The head and arms were found separate from the body, which has been ascertained to be that of George Collis, a gentleman's servant, who has been missing since December last. John Platts, a butcher, is in custody on suspicion of being the murderer. NEW S IGN OF DEATH. — The following important dis- J covery is calculated to be of great service in cases of suspected death. The communication was lately made to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, by M. Ripault, who, in directing the attention of members to the dis- covery, observed that, it consisted in perfect flaccidity of the iris when the globe of the eye is compressed in two opposite directions. If tbe individual be living, the pupil retains its circular form, notwithstanding the compression; if dead, the aperture becomes irregular, and the circular form is lost. TIIK SurPLY OP LABOUR.—Lord John Russell has prescribed it as one of the conditions on which public labour shall be afforded in any district in Ireland, that no labour shall be supplied from public sources when there shall exist any private demand for labour. That this rule is likily to cause considerable injury to the poor will be evident from the following paragraph, copied from a provincial paper :— "On Saturday last the works carri",1 on under the super- intendence of A, Harrison, Esq., ill thi" neighbourhood, were brought to a close, pursuant to ail order of the Board of Works, in order to give facilities to the farmer to secure his harvest. The amount of labourers, however, was too numerous for all that remains to be doue at harvest labour, amI numhers have been thrown out of cmp!ùymcnt,Northenl Standard. Now it is well known that the field of private labour is twice as extensive in the north as in the south or west of Ireland if, therefore, numbers have been thrown out of employment at Monaghan, in consequence of Lord John Russell's order, the result of it in the districts where less of private employment offers to the peasantry, must be most afflicting. THE FORGERY CASE AT COUTTS'S.—Circumstances are stated to have transpired since the examination On Tues- day, which will put an end to all further proceedings. It is well known that the two officers who apprehended the prisoner have been informed that there is no occasion for the present for them to make any further inquiries, besides which, it is stated that 110 letters have been re- ceived from the two other directors, Mr. Wetmore and Mr. Stevenson, who signed the cheque, nor have those who are now conducting the prosecution been able to com- municate with them. In the event of the non-attendance of the two co-trustees and directors on Wednesday next, the case must fall to the ground, for, as 1\1 r. Alderman M usgrove remarked, unless they repudiated the alteration or substitution of £.3,000 for £ to, there was an end of the case. During the examination on Tuesday last, some of the parties connected with the company wcrE; speaking together, when one of the parties was heard to say that he had no doubt, before another examination, the whole of the matter would be satisfactorily explained, and that Captain Richardson would be discharged.— Weekly Chronicle. CHINESE BRICKS.—We noticed some time since the arrival of a cargo of bricks from China, and commented on the singularity of the importation, and of the evidently advancing state of commercial enterprise and speculation when such a description of article of merchandise should be brought to this country from so unusual a quarter and so great a distance. We find that a parcel of bricks which had been imported into the port of Liverpool by a vessel called the Annie, from Shanghae, (China), which were originally reported by the master of the vessel as being for exportation, are to he landed. The parcel com- prises the large number of 15,000, and bears good our former remarks 011 tlw subject with respect to the impor- tation of bricks from China for actual use in this country for the general put poses for which they are applied. The importations which now take place from foreign, and fre- quently from distant parts of the world, are so varied and remarkable as continually to call for especial notice, and it is their frequency alone, and the manner in which the enterprising spirit of the age prepares the public mind for the great revolution which has taken place in com- mercial affairs, which prevents them exciting the sur- prise which otherwise would naturally be the case. WHAT IS ITI" — During the latter part of last week, all the dead walls of the metropolis were suddenly en- livened by a pictorial chimpanzee, some two or three feet high, in a half stauding, half recumbent posture, and underneath flamed the words, "What is it ? or the wild mall of the Prairies 1" in tremendous capitals, with an intimation that the original might be seen on Mon- day, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, at certain hours, and for certain payments. At the same time long ad- vertisements appeared in the papers, artfully constructed to provoke ctuiosity, and beget general inquisitiveness as to the peculiarities of so unique a phenomenon. The "Whatisitl" was alleged to be so called because such was said to be the exclamation of every one who saw it. The proprietors did not pretend to affirm what it was in reality, or whether it was animal, human, an extraordi- diuary freak of nature, or the long-sought-for link be- tween man and the ourangoutang, which naturalists have decided does exist, but which has as yet been Ilndiseovered." Its features, hands, and the uppet. part of tile body were, as alleged, to all appearance human—the lower parts, hind legs, and haunches, animal—entirely covered, ex- cept the face and hands, with long flowing hair, of vari- ous shades; larger than ordinary man, but not so tall; having the intelligence appertaining to humanity, capable of doing anything it saw done, or anything which man or animal could do, except speak, read, or write; and, finally, the most extraordinary being that ever aston- ished the world." Numbers of the gobemouche family early flocked to the scene of attraction; but among them was a certain wide-awake gentleman, who signs himself "Open Eye," and whose anxiety in respect to What is it," ended in an eclaircissement fatal to the whole mys- tery. The wild man's" keeper warned visitors that to approach the animal would be a most dangerous expe- riment, as the creature was vicious in the extreme to strangers, though exceedingly docile to his attendant. This did not at all intimidate Open Eye," who, utterly regardless of the nut-cracking and raw flesh-eating ex- ploits of What is it," and the prodigious coat of hair that enveloped him, volunteered to go into his den, and not only pull out the connecting link between man and the ourang outang," but to pull him out of his skin and turn him into an old familiar mountebank, known at every fair and market from Torquay to Mull of Galloway. As- tounding was the result of this intelligence on the "won- derful animal," who so far exceeded the professions in the prospectus, as to not being able to speak, that his tongue began, at the rate of a Great Western special express, a dialogue with his keeper, which ended in a precipitate offer o £ the return of the money to all present, and an admission of the truth of the accusation, that the monster which no words could describe, was the veritable antique Jocko, who has played Man Friday" and all sorts of learned pigs, and philosophic baboons, and accomplished porcupines, any time these five-and-twenty years back.—■ Since the days of the Bottle Conjuror, this is, perhaps, the most brazen-faced hoax attempted in London. MURDER IN BELGIUM.—A murder, attended with sin- gular circumstances, took place in the night ot Sunday last, at the hotel of the Red Lion at Tirlemont (Belgium). The host and hostess were alone, and, having finished the business of the day, were about retiring to rest when a neighbour demanded admission, and on entering said that he had come to spend with them some of the pro. fits of his business. The three sat down to table and commenced drinking wine. Their sitting, enlivened by jokes and cheerful conversation, was kept up until a late hour. About half-past one they all began to com- plain of drowsiness. The landlady retired into an ad- joining chamber and was soon asleep. After taking a concluding glass, the visitor, observing that it was then too late to return to his own house, proposed to pass the remainder of the night where he was in a chair. This, however, the landlord would not allow, saying that he would go up stairs and fetch a mattress for him. While he was absent for this purpose the man went into the room where the hostess was asleep, and, passing a rope in which he had made a noose over her neck, sud- denly pulled it tight, and left her, as he imagined, dead. He then re-entered the room where they had been drink- ing just as the husband returned. The mattress was arranged, when the man proposed that the landlord should also lie down on it for the night, as in all probability his wife was fast asleep, and it was a pity to disturb her. This proposition was unfortunately assented to. The landlord, overpowered by his potations, was soon asleep. Then the man rose and attempted to strangle him in the same manner as he had before adopted towards his wife. A desperate struggle ensued, but in the end the assassin gained the mastery, and his victim lay dead at his feet. He next took a light, and going up stairs took away about 900f. iu money. He then left the house, closing the door after him. In the morning, the inhabitants finding the house remained closed, became alarmed, and calling for the aid of the police the doors were forced, when the bo- dies were found as above described. The poor woman was still alive, and by the aid of restoratives recovered sufficiently to state what had occurred, and to declare the author of the crime to be a neighbour named Charles Verbeist, a tobacconist. He was immediately arrested and sent to prison, denying, however, any connection with either the murder or the robbery. The woman re- mains in a most dangerous state. TtmInosTRADH.The present state of the iron trade in the South Staffordshire district is as satisfactory as il has been for many years past. The extensive and in, creasing demand for home consumption for carrying out the various railway projects, with the requirements of the export trade, are calling into requisition all the improved facilities of production, and must, keep them fullv em- ployed for some years. The order-books both at the larger and smaller works are well iflled with orders, in many instances of such a nature as will in their comple- tion extend over a much loug'T period than ordinary and fresh contracts are brought forward every week for various requisites for railway construction. These are generally for heavy articles, and though a very conside- rable quantity of pig iron was sold and distributed among the works in the neighbourhood at quarter-day la?t, yet those masters who are entirely dependent OIL purchases find their stocks diminishing more rapidly than they had calculated, and in many instances have been under the necessity of giving much higher prices for extended sup- plies. The uncalled-for reduction that was submitted to duriinr the last quarter, and which was sanctioned by 110 equivalent reduction either iu wages or materials, may therefore be considered entirely at an end and from the well-known fact, 111 -it all the principal holder:; of stocks parted with them at quarter-day, and the certainty that no reduction eat^be expected either iu wages or materials during the winter months, it would not be a matter of surprise if an advance should be declared at the next quarterly meeting of thetradc. Due consideration will, however, doubtless be given before taking such a step, to the effect, it might have upon the exports, whichform so seriolls a part of our consumption. At the present rates of £5 for pig iron, and Eil) for manufacture.), no possible danger can arise and we trust that 110 rash movement will check the increasing demand which may legitimately be expected from the; various alterations in duty that have lately been made upon the admission of British iron into the ports of foreign nations. The exports of British iron in the year 1845, were as follow :—Pig iron, 77,022 tons castings, 22,030 bars, including hoops, rods, 179,012 unwrought steel, 7015; being upwards of 283,000 tons. Birmingham Gnze'te. DESTRUCTIVE AND ALARJIINO FIRE IN THE SAW- CLOSE, BATH.—BATH, SKIT. G.—At. about twenty minutes before ten o'clock last night, the inhabitants of the lower districts of this city were thrown into the utmost con- sternation and alarm by the breaking out. of a fire upon the extensive premises of Mr. Butcher, soap and candle manufacturer, Saw-close. The usual precautions to guard against conflagration had been observed upon the closing of the premises, and the cause of the calamity remains as yet unknown. The smoke and flames were first ob- served by a man who was passing the warehouse, who having given information to the policeman on the beat, the alarm was rapidly spread through the city, and the different public engines and some thousands of citizens were speedily attracted to the spot. In the factory there was a considerable stock of tallow, fat, and manufactured candles, and the combustible nature of those materials tended to feed the flames, which burned with irresistible fury. Mr. Butcher's factory was, in the course of an hour a complete mass of fire; and the premises of Mr. Williams, veterinary surgeon; Mr. Law, wharfinger; and the whole of the surrounding buildings were placed in the most imminent peril. -Air. Williams's house was much damaged, and it was with difficulty that the con- flagration could be kept from extending to Air. Law's yard, in which was a ¡,reat deal of valuable property. At the theatre, which immediately adjoins the Saw-close, the utmost alarm was excited. The performances were for the benefit of Mdlie. Flora Fabbri, who, with a strong ballet corps from Drury.lane, was performing in the ballet of Le Diablo a Quatrc. The reflection of the flames being distinctly visible through the windows of the theatre, the alarm spread that the theatre was on fire. The audience evacuated the place immediately, and the consternation extending to behind the curtain, the ballet was suspended, and the company left the building. Two or three men were injured, and were conveyed to the hospital. The extent of the damage has not been ascer- tained, uut it, must have been very considerallle. The mortality of London, and indeed, of England generally, shows a gradual annual decrease, whilst it is well known the population increases considerably. The rates of premium for Life Insurance have been greatly reduced during the last few years, yet the odiees continue as prosperous as formerly. These facts clearly demon- strate that some cause, either unknown or unheeded, must have produced such favourable results. Amongst these causes, the increased knowledge of anatomy and the many very valuable discoveries iu medicine will stand most prominent. The small-pox, that annually carried off thousands, has been successfully coinbatted by vacci- nation and Gout, that used to claim its numerous victims, has been thoroughly vanquished by Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills."

Siitpyntg StoteHigeutt. HtlTF. DOCKS. — Arrived, the Bathurst, Whelan, forts n<)th ..Itedruth, Mines, Haylfl..Jantima. Stubb*. I (oil mi.. Mary Hill, Hollerts, Port Ta'h>>t.i{apid. Porb^s. l'lvinoath.Iidw. Jones, Dugnan, RODS.. Liverpool. I'lielaii,Watei-ford.. Friends, By rile, Mil ford.. G -orgn Fourth. S: 11 net, VVaterf.»rd.Trenton, Hayes, fruro, all in ballast.TatY, Mitchell, Bristol.• Swift, Tawton, Bristol, Ih'ht. I'on non Castle, Cosby, i'artui n'.oe, iron ere..Unbona, Thomas, Hayle.. Brilliant, Fortune, Wa- terlord, haliast. Ann, Marshall. Uridgwater, light.. Joseph and Vlary, H.trry, Ann, Young. Portsmout h, ballast Mayflower, Wilber, Cliarlestown, iron ore..William. Collins, Bristol, light.. I'enryn Castle, Thomas, Barrow, iron ore. Water Lilly, i'arry, Cork, ballast.. Dmas, Mills. Bristol, light Uhondda, Donnican, do., ike.. Gipsey, I'hiliips, Ba:ro>v, iron ore.Hcso)u[iou, Angel, Water lord, flour.. KlsinaJohiin- nay 1* loomgM, Itouen, I)allait.. Dove, Stevens, Gloucester, iron ore., .Frankea, Boer, London, ballast .D >nvr, Keiti, White- haven, iron ore.. Vigilant, Da-. ies, Waterford, ballast.. Perse- verance, [\irridge, Bristol, do..Cumberland. (jill. Whiteha- veil. irnn ore.Slaney, Campbell, Belfast, baliasi.. Martha, Knox, Waterford, do.. John and William, Moare. Barnstaple, light.. Ludvig, Andrews, !> rest. Alexander, Nicholls, Water- ford.Samuel, Murphy, Cork.Hof)ot)r, Keatley, Honlleur. t.iboty.; Andrews. St. Ives, ballast..Go >d Hope, VVashbourne. Gloster, irott ore.. Alfr id, Gaggery, Waterford. stone-i.. Un- daunted, Foster, Cork, ballast.. 1'atf, Mitchell. Mristol.. Swift, awtou, do., light.Jantiua. Olthop, Amsterdam .Thurnas Mahoney, Mulcarthy, Dru^arwan.. t*"ly» Andaews, St. Ives.. Jane, Gyles, ilayle, in ballast.GeorgmV, G'legg, Waterford, stones.. Argonaut, Hayes Yougbal. Ardent, Dodding, Du'>- 1'etrel, Dusting. Penzance.. Hoope en I'ortuin, N'ichof, Itouen. Ulster. Byers, Belfast.. Sultan, ilead, Watc rford bal! ast L ana, Poole, Glùncester. Alexander and Jenny, Wi.Iiams, Poitmadoc, iron ore. C'iiailes, Sowe, Newport, lizht.. lilizaheth. Ley, Falmouth, ballast.. Mary, lleniiroogh, I'.xeter, do.. Jane, Cazey, Cork, stones. E nanda, Driscon, Southampton..Seiedam, Moore, Bordeaux.. Abbotsford, (Jrey. Peecamu ballast..Sisters, Pine, Newport, cinders.. l'hoe'ius, Jones, Portsmouth, ballast.. Mary and Elizabeth, Fry, Fo.vey, sundries.. Mary, Cure, Penzance Heed, Henry, do..Swift, Murphy, Waterford, ballast. Prince of Wales (s.), Jones, Bristol, general cargo.Lady Ctiarlotte (s.), Jetferys, d.). do. Sailed,the Brilliair, Fortune, Waterford.. Herrings, Gibern, Cronstadt.. Merton, Hayes, lYuro., Talf, .Mitchell, B.istol. Swift, Tawton, do.Fame, Grenfeil, llayle, coal. Frawhea, Boer, Bremen Kingston, .iichards, do., iron.Wanderer, Ward, Koos.. Bathnrst, Whelan, Waterford..Jo iin and Wil- liam, Moare, Bideford.George Fourth, Siinnoit, Waterford, Seawalker, Anderson, London. H neral I, Muiard, Fowey. Albion, Kobert, Newry..Superb, I'o-vles, (i liMicesttfr. • •• Ida, Barnon, Newry Henry, Thomas, I'lyino it!i, coal ..Confi- dence, Richards, Glamorganshire Canal, light. Friends, Ilarri,s, Bicieford, coal.t'ciiryn C,titie, Glamorgan- shire Canal, light. Pilgrim. Colfort, Waterfom.Liverpool, l'helan, do.. Princess, Moor, London.. Valeatine, Williams, Itoos.. Erill, .\I'Don"I<1, do.. Lady Selina, Clements, Newport • Dinas, Mills, Bristol.. Itboadda, Doinicao, do., coal.. D ike of Wellington, Noall, Bristol.. Ann, Williams, Gloster, light Victory, Travers, ))nbtin.. Martha, Allen, Carthagena..Jo- seph and Mary, Harry, Truro, coal. Lvda, Biuoy, Bremen, iron Palmerston, Davies, Bristol.. Western Star, Condon, Boos..Mary, Savage, Newry, coal.. Brown, Dublin, iron.. William, Colli us, Newport, light.. Mary Jones, Hughes, Dublin, coal., limina, Washhuusc, Gloster, light. < Brothers, Carter, Belfast,coal.liliza and Ann, Morgan, Glamorganshire Can d, ligat.. Itedruth, Mines, St. 1 ves» David Walter, ltoacb, Waterford..Victoria, Hees, do ..Slatiev, Larkin. Helf,isL. Win. and Jane, Hocking, Bideford..Countess Fortescue, Ste- vens, St. Ives..Tro ljroihess, Prevett, Dublin.William and Klizabeth, Pophatn, Bideford.Thomas, Bant, Penzance, coal Superior, Cocklain, Dublin, iron..Talbot, Bunt, Penzance.. Ocean. Dusting, do., coal.John 1Jicks, Smith, Glamorgan- shire Canal, light. Mary, iiees, Hayle, coal.. Providence, Longney, Gloster. William, Brokenshaw, Glamorganshire Canal.. Nottingham. Knapp, Gloster, lighs..Sir J. Newport, ,o Nicholls, Waterford.. Elizabeth, Whitfield, Bristol., Richard and Jane, Toker, Fo .vey Amelia Louisa, Cavevera, Malta, coal.Pike,Cobby, Hamburg, iron..Prccissa, Sowcbeig, Stock holm, coal.. l'rince of Wales (s.), Jones, Bristol, general car- go.. Lady Charlotte (s.), JetTerys, do., do. Vessels in Duck loading for Foreign. SHIPS. MA ST hit. I) HJNI). CARGO. TONS. Catherine. Althop Amsterdam. Iron. Klsina Johanna •• Fiinsiugs. Bremen Do (35 Hoop en Portuin.. Nichof Do. Do 90 Jantina Althop lio Do. Ludvig Andries.. Amsterdam.. Do 235 Martin Koop. Do ])0 GL.\MOUGANSI!IKE CANAI.. — Arrived, the Active, Pope, Builow Pill. Mary Ann, Hooper, do. Affiance, Bidd.e, do. British Queen, J.,nes, Pwllheli. Mayflower, Wilks, Bullow Pill.Alary, Evaus, Bristol. M illicent, Carther, Fowey.. Pro- vider, Wifcock, do. Sisters, Knapp, Bullow i'ill.Galley, Sto- rey, do. Fiiza, Dvans, Pwllheli.• Ullen, Owen, Barrow. Ann, Dowall, Bullow l'ill..Maiy, 1 lioiuas, do., all with iron ore.John, Nicholls, Bristol.. Lamb, Jeffreys, Swansea. • Vlarv Ann, Gavies, Looe.. Punch, Foster, Plymouth.. Dllke of Gor dou, Stephenson, Glasgow.. Mary, Smith, Glos'.er.Herald. Love, Penzance. Adalphine, Anison, Nantes.LulSema, H ansema, Amstcrdalll.. C lemcutina, Brane, PI vmolllh. Ae Hoop, Fekker, Vcendain Harmonie, Dowe, do. William and Henry, Foreman, Plymouth.John, Lewis, Bideford Eclair, Davies, Milford.Independent, Cross, Bristol.. Beat 1- tude, Bernard, Whitby. Rival, Hicks, London.. W illiaui, liro- kenshire, Bute Dock.. Pendennis, Haunil'ord, Plymouth Victory, Evans, do.Honors, Bools, Briilport. Prosperous, Jones, Bristol.. Harp, Breinan, Wexford..John I licks. Smith, Bute Dock.A'eielie, Diaman, Nantes.. Providence,Williams, Bristol.. Kxcel, Read, Wexlord.. Vicloua, Ilu we, do.. Grey- houud, Cooper, Ipswich, all iu budast..Olive Branch, Alen- dus, Barry-• Friends, Winters, Porthcawl..Thomas & James, Headtord, Bt idgwater.. Charles, Powe, do.l!rol £ hj*8^'>1'>au,» do.Margam Packet, liolclli, Davies, Newport.Windermere, Davies, do.. Belinda, liowles, GRos- ier.. Amity, Pearson, Bristol.. George Canning, Viqneft, a- terford. Vron, l'arry, Liverpool., Ann, Daaies, Bristol.Lark, Mayo, Gloucester.. Betsey, John, Ahertha-v.. Fame, Knight, Bristol. Gorwm, Bideford.Jane, Nurse, Lydney ..Bardsea, Gateskell, porthcawl.. Merthyr Packet, ihomas, Bristol.. Dolphin, Go,verf Lydney.. Friends, Cobley, Porth- cawl.. Betsey, John, do..Caioitf 'i'ra.ler, Davies, Gloster. Lydncy Lass, A Lydney.. Alalia, Jones, Porthcaw). Bille, Walters, Bristol.. Charles, Dicland, Jersey..Caroline, Howies, Newport. Bee, Storey, Porthcawl ..John, Westley, Bristol.Trusty, vV'ild.ido.. Pilot, Staple, Newport.. liobert, Jones, do. Ant), Bnshen, Porthca IV 1.. Newnham, Smith, Lyd- licy., Aüll and Mary, EvaDs, Newport Three Brothers, er. We rii ',)I I t(,r, Golding, do.. f,a,ly A cleii,i Davies. Bade — Friends. Ash nan, Bristol.. Elizabeth Wright, I" \rk, Hillmin, G luster.M arv, Smith, do.. Anna Maria, Mor/an. Carmarthen, all with sundries. Stiiled, the Endeavour, Lloyd, Liverpool. \lIn. n,lIIic:õ, ttrisiol.. William and Henry, Foreman, Hull..Abra, Abrams, Duhlil1..Silty!, llamon, !1o'l!l'rd.uIl.<;CIHg", Thomas, New- haven.. Providence, Williams, Bristol. I)cvonport. Parry, 1.011<1, Merthvr Packet, Tlwllla<, Bristol.. Ainity, Pearson, do.. Elizabeth, IMundy, Hull.Dc Hoop, Fekker, Rotterdam ..Clementina, Brand, 11 uH. Mary Kelly, Bcwer. Ulver;to:i William, Brokenshire, Ncwliaven.Su; inn all, Wood, D ib- 1¡:1.L,ry Ann, Davey, 1,H\1l1ora, Bools, Hull.MiHY Evans, Rris;o! Ann and Mary. Evans, Dundalk.John Hicks, Smith, London.. Rival, Hicks. Leghorn. Jane Innis, Jones, Galatz.. Elizabeth, Wright, Bristol.. Bute, Waiters, do..Ta- mar, Gover Hull.. Excel, Reed, tin.. Pendenuis, Haiiniford do.. Harmonic, Dowe, Amsterdam, all with iron.Phomas J ames, Head ford, Bridgwater. Brothers, Bryant, do. Charles, How." Newport..John, Lewis, lifracombc.Josephine, Dan- aril, Nantes.. Friend s, Winter. Bideford. Minerva, Gorwin, ,in, Add"loin", 1\lIi._OIl, N;\IItes.J:llnda, Eowles, Gloster.. Independent, Cross, Bristol.. Lewes Castle, Florence, Cork.. Queen Adelaide, Harvey, l'ell7.all('.e.. Chafles, Dreland, Jer- se y. Betsey,John, hen h<\ w. \I ill iCCllt, C" rvet h, I' ,1)1 ,)W.. Brothers, Davies, Glo iter.. Dolphin, Gower, Newport.. Marv, Smith, (¡¡,)stcr.. Brothers, Window, Bri^tol.George Call11ill¡:, Viqllers, Wa:crÎord, all with co,ol.I,ark, ",YQ, G:ol\ccsler.. Windermere, Davies, :\e \('0 rt. 'clive, Cape, Bullow 1'1. Olive Branch, Mendus, Barry ..J.inc, Nurse, Bullow Pill.. Vlary Ann.Hooper, do.. Alliance, I'iddl. do..Margam Packet, Roach, Newport.. Mayflo wer, Wilks, Hullow Pill.. I ndustry, Bes,el, Jolt n, v, Fiel,l, Galley, Storey, Bullow Pill ..Lady Arland, Davev, Nawport Newnham, Smith, B ul low Bill.. rk, 11 ill man, Chepstow. Ann, Dowall, Bullow Pill.. W ern Collier, Goulding, do., light.

BA.NK.llUP i'S.—(From the ftindon Ga:ettea.) FRIDAY.— R. F. Barber, Bishopsgate-street Without- licensed victualler. W. Like, Ilentield, Susie*, grocer. J, .Mortimer, Brail ford, Yorkshire, woolstapler. T. Wainwright, Barnsley, Yorkshire, surgeon. J. Hall, Leeds, chemist. J. Firth, sen., J. Firth, jun., J. Dugdale, and VV. Stott, High Town, Yorkshire, cotton-spiuners. G. Lewis, VV ru&ham, Denbighshire, apothecary. TUESDAY. — 'Thomas Cooke, plasterer. Bridge-tcrrace, Har row-road, Paddington. John Ditchnan, builder, ThIHlo\V- place, Hackney-rnad. Wil:iatn George Barley, draper, Northampton. Hichard \V,tlwu. ho;;ier, \Vardour-,q:rect, S,)!I.J. Joseph Graham, wholesale stationer, Jewry-street, Alilgatc. Frederick Arnold, stationer & perfumer, Bond-street. Udwiu Augustus William ,ylor, bookseller, Kiikgate, Bradford. Joseph DodSworth Browning, cabinet-makur, Bristol. Tho. Wright, cheese-factor, Derby. Benjamin Carreg Southern, coal-dealer, Liverpool. Christopher Dickinson Johnson, vic- tualler, Liverpool. John Birley, card-inanufactuier, Lancas- ter. John Hignett, sack-mauufacturer, Manchester. James Tuckett, herbalist, Exeter.

ibnUon A&irftetg. MA It K LANE .—MONDAY. I'he supply of English wheat is moderate, and having some demand for export, in addition to the demand Lom our mil- lers, we have had a very brisk market to-day and an advance of 4s. per qr. has been obtained on the currency of this day week. Foreign wheat, both free and in bond, is 2s. per qr. dearer. The Louiion millers have raised the top price of flour 3s. per sack. Foreign Hour is 2s. per barrel, and ship flour 2s. per sack higher. The quantity 01 barley is small, and prices rather higher. Beans and peas are in very small supply, and each Is. per qr dearer. The arrivals of oats are moderate, and we have had a free sale to-day at An improve- ment of ii. to 2s. per qr. since this day s,nuight. CORN EKCrlAXGIS-MONDAY. CURRENT PRICES of GILUN, per Imperial Quarter. BRITISH. s. s. s. Wheat, Essex, Kent, 4c Sulfolk, red,184fl .50 5j Old. 43 54 — Do. do. do. white" 51i ôl Do. 5ti 60 — Norfolk and Lincoln red 48 52 Do AC) 54 — Northumberid. & Scotch white,, 44 5J Do. 52 5'3 Rye, old 32 34 New 34 3(> Brink.28 30 Barley,grinding '2^ 30 Disfilling.'H 34 Malting :$3 Malt, brown 52 51 Pale.59 (54 Ware. 6.1 Beans,tick new& eld 35 3ti Harrow.3944 Pigeon. 43 43 Peas, gray .37 39 Maple.38 4L White.. 46 b'l Oats, Lincolnshire & Yorskhire feed.26 27 Poland. 29 30 — Scotch (Angus). 3D 32 Potato..33 35 — Irish, white .23 3) Black.24 Per 280lb. Per 2dl)lb. Town-made Flour 46 50 Norfolk and Stockton.. 40 42 Essex and Kent 42 41 hisli 40 4-3 FOREIGN. Free. In bond. Wheat, Pantzic, Konigsburg, &c. 51) 61.46 50 — Marks, Meckleaburg.50 5k.45 4J 1)allish,H,¡btcin,&Fdeslaud,wd.U 46 — Russian, hard 44 46 Soft.4t 50 — — Italian, red ..4u 5U White .52 56 — — Spanish, hard 41 46 Soft .50 54 — Indian corn, yellow.32 34 White.34 35 — Barley, grinding 26 2S Malting.32 34 — Beans, licks .37 39 E;yptian34 35 — Peas, white .40 44 Maple ..37 39 — Oats, Dutch, bre.v and thick. 27 29 — — Russian. 26 27 — — Danish, Friesland, feed 23 28. —■ Flour, per barrel 27 31 — GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES of CORX per Unarter coinputed from ttid Inspectors' Ileturlti. GENISILAL AVE it AG IS. s. d. ¡ s. d. Wheat. 46 11 Rye 30 I Barley il 5 Beans 5 Oats 23 5 j Peas 3o 6 DUTY OX FO TIN IGN COll.N'. 10 0 I Rye 4 Barley 4 0 Bean 4 0 Oats t 6 Peas 4 SMITHFIELD MARKETS —MONDAY. To-day we had all offer of abiwlt 6)0 foreign beast j, °2,900 ditto of sheep and lambs, and 20 calves. The quantity was by no means iirst-rate, yet nearly the whole found buyers, at fully last week's prices. For the time of the year, the num!>ef of hoiue-fed beasts on show this morning was rather limited, and of very middling quality. The attendance of buyers was rather extensive, while the demand for the primest Scots, &c. was very -steady, at previous quotations, in all other breeds only a moderate Imsiness was uoing, at late rates- From the northern counties we received about 1,400 short- horns; from the eastern districts, 3JO Scots, short-horns, &c. » from the western and midland counties, 600 Herefords, runts, Dav nn,&c. and fro n other parts of England aM of various kinds. The supply of sheep was again extensive, yet the mutton trade was very firm, at fully, but at nothing q iotable beyond, last .Monday's prices. With lambs we were seasona- bly well supplied. All breeds moved off readily at extreme currencies. Calves m )ved off freely, at advanced prices. 111 pigs very little was doing at our quotations. STATEMENT and COMPARISON of the Stjppui-s and PRIClè5 of FAT STOCK exhibited and said in Smitbiield Cattle Market, on Monday, Sept. 8. 1845, and Monday, Sept. 7, 1846: — Per Slbs to sink the offal. Sept. 8, 1IH». S ipt. 7, 18• Coarse and inferjo'j B;as;s 2 6 to 2 10 2 10 to 3 0 Second quality ditto 30 34..J 2 3 (j Prime large Oxen 3 6 :J 8..3 8 3 1" Prime Scots, txc. 3 10 4 0..4 0 4 2 Coarse and inferior Sheep. 3 4 3 lU 3 6 3 10 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 I), 4 0 4 2 Prime coarse-woolled ditto, 4 6 40 8. t 2 4 4 Prime Southdown ditto 4 10 5 0..4 6 4 8 Lambs. • 4 6 56 8 5 n Large Co ivse Calves 4 0 46 3 104 Prime small. 4 8 50 4 8 4 10 Large I logs 2 10 3 6 3 8 4 6 Xeat small Porkers. 3 8 4 ).48 4LJ Sept. 8, 18!.J. Sept. 7,1816. Boasts 3.4t)i) 3,540 Sheep and. Lambs 26,670 30, W0 Calves. 161 ISO Pigs 300 ItlJ T 11 E M E r A L TRADE. £ s. d. £ s. d. IRON-Bar AVales .per ton 0 0 0— 8 10 0 London 0 y 9 10 (I KMii-ott)., 0 0 0—10 Id 0 Hoop(Staf.)„ 0 0 0-11 10 0 Sheet 1.; 0 O-la 10 0 Bars 0 0 0 -10 10 0 Welsh cold-blast l'jaudrypig.. 4 0 0—5 0 U Scotch pig, Clyde 0 — J 1 Li 0 Rails, average 0 0 u- a 10 u Russian, CCND U 0 0-0 0 0 PSI 1.1 0 0 —lj 10 0 (jourieiV 0 0 O-B I:) 0 Archangel 0 0 0 -13 12 ti Swednh.onthespot. II 0 O-ll 10 0 Steel, fast 0 0 0-15 0 0 kegs It U 0-1,1 10 0 CoprEit—Tile. • 0 0 0—q (> Tough cake. 0 0 0—93 0 0 liest selected 0 0 0—<Jti 0 0 Ordinary sheets ..•••■•lb. 0 0 0— 0 0 lK.J „ bottoms 0 0 0— 0 I) 111 TIN—Com. blocks .ewt. 0 0 0— -4 12 0 bars 0 0 0- 4. 13 t; Refined 0 0 0— 4 1.1 0 Straits 411 0—4120 llanca. 0 0 0— 4 14 0 TIN Pi-vrss—Ch., IC l J 0 1 10 0 „ Ill 0— 1 ltf 0 Coke, IC 1 4 6 1 j 0 IX 1 10 6—111 0 LEAD—Sheet 0 0 0-1'J lj 0 pig, refined 000-19 0 0 com:nLJIl. 0 0 0—18 10 0 Spanish, in bd 17 5 0—17 10 0 American 17 10 0—17 lj 0 SPHLTER— (Calve) 0 0 0-li) 0 0 Zinu—(Sheet) export.0 u 0-28 0 0 Liu 0 0- 0 4 S ilCFINKD iVilix VL toil 4 lo 0— "> 0 0 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1846. 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